Health
Through the study and use of genetics, we can identify measures that could lead to the improvement of human health and wellness. These methods and procedures aim to prevent years of chronic disease and thousands of dollars in health care costs, and provide families and communities with knowledge of how to live healthier.
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Microplastics found clogging human arteries and lungs. What are the long-term health consequences?
Raising risk of heart attacks in humans: microplastics have been found in the blood and in organs such as the ...
Eat what you want while staying healthy? Here’s how scientists are working to transform the sugar that you eat into fiber
We all know that too much sugar is bad for us. It can lead to weight gain, obesity, type 2 ...
Viewpoint: Ready to abandon milk and meat to improve health and save the environment? Not so fast.
Substituting meat and dairy with more plant-based foods in our diets can achieve benefits for human and environmental health: this is ...
Could swimming ‘microbots’ smaller than a grain of sand one day deliver drugs and destroy pathogens in the bloodstream? We’re one step closer
Tiny robots that swim through our blood to deliver drugs or hunt down pathogens that can think for themselves ...
Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group up to its old trick of misrepresenting science to scare us about chemical traces in its attack on oat products containing micro-levels of chlormequat
So, here we go. Something else to worry about. At least according to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-profit ...
Viewpoint: ‘Enemy of Science’ — Friends of the Earth renews its organic industry-funded campaign against GM crops
In 1969, a fellow who felt that the eugenicist founders of Sierra Club were not militant enough in their war ...
Person in Texas contracts virulent strain of bird flu after contact with cattle, in second known US case
A person in Texas has been diagnosed with a highly virulent strain of bird flu, the first such case since ...
Gametes? Embryo? Fetus? There are 17 timepoints when a human life might begin
I wish that I could stop reposting this essay – I do so whenever limitations on women’s reproductive rights become ...
Kate Middleton’s cancer disclosure underscores troubling rise of disease in younger adults
Cancer is mostly diagnosed in those over 65 and in the U.S., only about 12% of cancers are diagnosed among ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO arguments seem silly after 28 years of false narratives about health harms and and genetic contamination
Since the first genetically engineered or modified crops or organisms (GMO) were approved for commercial production in 1995, no new ...
Viewpoint: Food Network experts blast organic-funded ‘Dirty Dozen’ list for misleading consumers about trace pesticides on crops
Every year the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases its list of the Dirty Dozen, a group of 12 fruits and vegetables ...
Power of placebo: Here is how the ‘belief effect’ influences our views on nutrition, pain and mental health
There is a fascinating interplay between the power of belief and its profound impact on our corporeal health and nutrition ...
Viewpoint: The Environmental Working Group’s “Dirty Dozen” list is a danger to public health put out by an organic industry funded activist group
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is an anti-science activist organization ...
Viewpoint: ‘Heavy’ pesticide exposure linked to cardiovascular disease? Flawed study raises ‘troubling’ questions about public health research
What do the results really show? ...
Scientists losing uphill battle to prevent measles spread
Measles seems poised to make a comeback in America. Two adults and two children staying at a migrant shelter in ...
Global ‘longevity hotspots’: What’s the secret of these blue zones?
Ageing is an inevitable part of life, which may explain our strong fascination with the quest for longevity. The allure of eternal youth drives a multi-billion ...
Scammy food allergy test? Why the most prominent US allergy association recommends against relying on popular IgG serological panels
A test that claims to be able to diagnose food sensitivities and is commonly available is the food IgG test. ...
Did eugenicist Charles Lindbergh fake his disabled son’s ‘crime-of-the-century’ kidnapping to cover up experiments by Nazi-sympathizing scientists?
The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s son has inspired plausible theories about what really happened ...
Are ‘superdodgers’ real? Is COVID seasonal? We’re finally making progress on understanding 7 of the biggest COVID mysteries
When the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, nearly everything about the novel coronavirus was ...
Treating tinnitus: FDA approves first device to reduce ear ringing
Tinnitus is a perceived sound that only you can hear. It might be a ringing, buzz, or tone. It arises ...
Viewpoint: Do you believe in magic? Many nutritional supplements are impure, ineffective, unsafe — and unregulated. That needs to change
Herbal dietary supplements (also known as nutritional supplements, but correctly called botanicals), once dismissed as hippie fare, are now widely ...
The dark side of convenient foods: 32 health problems from heart disease to depression are associated with ultra-processed foods, new study claims
Many studies have indicated that ultra-processed foods are uniquely bad for our health. But the authors of this latest research, published ...
‘A walking experiment in hyper-vaccination’: What happened when a man chose to get 217 COVID shots in just over two years?
A 62-year-old from Magdeburg deliberately got 217 Covid-19 vaccine shots in the span of 29 months, new study states ...
Nightmare germ: A look back at terrifying Mad Cow Epidemic that began in the 1980s
One of the most existentially frightening illnesses ever to be discovered was mad cow disease, a fatal prion-spread illness that ...
Comparing weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Mounjaro
Drug Comparison: A plethora of new weight-loss drugs are now available in the U.S., but they aren’t necessarily the same ...
Japanese patients wait average of 15 years for a kidney transplant. Xenotransplantation to create pig-grown organs could dramatically enhance supply
eGenesis and PorMedTec plan to jointly advance the development of genetically engineered organs in Japan to address the massive unmet ...
PCOS and brain health: Hormonal disorder underdiagnosed, affects 1 in 10 women — and is a sign of cognitive decline later in life
PCOS, a hormonal disorder which affects at least 1 in 10 women, has been linked awith potential cognitive issues in ...
